Click to play videoDhaka: Last week, CNN-IBN travelled to the India-Bangladesh boundary to expose just how vulnerable our eastern border is to terrorist infiltration.
On paper, a 4,000-kilometre long border separates India and Bangladesh, but on the ground, little does.
Now a new government in Bangladesh says that preventing illegal immigration is difficult to control.
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Bangladesh's new Foreign Minister has accepted that it's difficult to stop the illegal immigration.
"We share a huge border, a very long border with India and think about the Mexico and the US. They have all this modern mechanism, they have everything. Still, can they stop people going from one side to the other? Here also it could happen, it happens. A part of the household is on that side and maybe the other part is on the other side. So there are crossings all the time," said Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni.
Since 2001, Bangladesh has been ruled first by a hardline Islamist regime and then by the army. Terrorist groups flourished under both.
But the present government under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised to turn the page.
"This government will do everything that is possible to combat that, combat those forces. Within our national borders through our national mechanism and at the same time we would like to cooperate with our neighbours so that the spill over effect is not there or there are no cross-border activities. But if we want lasting peace in this region then we must cooperate with all our neighbours," assured Dr Moni
Dr Moni also believes that a new task force needs to be created. It should be a task force which can crack down on terrorists, not only in Bangladesh but in South Asia.
It clear that for the first time in many years a government in Dhaka is promising change.
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